1. Project EIAs react to development proposals rather than anticipate them; they cannot drive development towards environmentally robust areas or away from environmentally sensitive sites.
2. Project EIAs do not sufficiently consider the overall impacts caused by several projects or even by a particular project’s sub-components or ancillary areas.
3. Small individual activities are harmless, but the impact of those activities can be significant, which cannot addressed by project EIAs.
4. A project can be planned in detail, before any preparation of the EIA, with irreversible decisions taken.
5. Project EIAs cannot address the impacts of potentially damaging actions that are not regulated through the approval of specific projects.
6. Project …show more content…
While every development wants to bring out the positive change, it can always lead to conflicts. There is always a need to avoid harmful impacts and to ensure long term benefits which led the world to sustainability. The aim being to predict environmental impacts of any development activity and to support the opportunity to mitigate against the negative impacts and to enhance the positives.
CASE STUDY: JINDAL STEEL AND POWER LIMITED (JSPL) AT RAIGARH, CHATTISGARH
Proposal: Jindal is operating an open cast coal mine to be added with crushing, washing and screening plant. JSPL is now proposing to set up a power plant which will use the middling and coal fines generated during the washing of coal as raw material. The company proposes to transmit the power generated by this thermal power plant to the steel plant through its own transmission …show more content…
Human habitation: 95 inhabited revenue villages
Impact Analysis: Type: Biophysical, Social, Health or Economic
Nature: Direct or Indirect, Cumulative, etc.
Magnitude: High, Moderate, Low.
Extent: Local, Regional, Trans-Boundary or Global.
Timing: Immediate or Long term.
Duration: Temporary or Permanent.
Uncertainty: Low likelihood or High probability.
Reversibility: Reversible or Irreversible.
Significance: Unimportant or Important.
Tools for Impact Analysis: Checklists, Matrices, Networks, Expert systems, Professional judgment.
Impact Mitigation: (i) To avoid and minimize or remedy harmful impacts.
(ii) To ensure that the residual impacts are within the acceptable levels.
(iii) To enhance environmental and social benefits
Framework for Impact Mitigation: Avoidance: Alternative sites or technology to eliminate habitat loss.
Mitigation: Actions during the design, construction and operation to minimize or eliminate habitat loss
Compensation: Used as a last resort to offset habitat at loss.
Remedial Measures in Thermal Power Plants: (i) Air Pollution Control
(ii) SOx Control (Use of alternate fuel)
(iii) NOx Control (Amonia injection, Flue gas
2. Project EIAs do not sufficiently consider the overall impacts caused by several projects or even by a particular project’s sub-components or ancillary areas.
3. Small individual activities are harmless, but the impact of those activities can be significant, which cannot addressed by project EIAs.
4. A project can be planned in detail, before any preparation of the EIA, with irreversible decisions taken.
5. Project EIAs cannot address the impacts of potentially damaging actions that are not regulated through the approval of specific projects.
6. Project …show more content…
While every development wants to bring out the positive change, it can always lead to conflicts. There is always a need to avoid harmful impacts and to ensure long term benefits which led the world to sustainability. The aim being to predict environmental impacts of any development activity and to support the opportunity to mitigate against the negative impacts and to enhance the positives.
CASE STUDY: JINDAL STEEL AND POWER LIMITED (JSPL) AT RAIGARH, CHATTISGARH
Proposal: Jindal is operating an open cast coal mine to be added with crushing, washing and screening plant. JSPL is now proposing to set up a power plant which will use the middling and coal fines generated during the washing of coal as raw material. The company proposes to transmit the power generated by this thermal power plant to the steel plant through its own transmission …show more content…
Human habitation: 95 inhabited revenue villages
Impact Analysis: Type: Biophysical, Social, Health or Economic
Nature: Direct or Indirect, Cumulative, etc.
Magnitude: High, Moderate, Low.
Extent: Local, Regional, Trans-Boundary or Global.
Timing: Immediate or Long term.
Duration: Temporary or Permanent.
Uncertainty: Low likelihood or High probability.
Reversibility: Reversible or Irreversible.
Significance: Unimportant or Important.
Tools for Impact Analysis: Checklists, Matrices, Networks, Expert systems, Professional judgment.
Impact Mitigation: (i) To avoid and minimize or remedy harmful impacts.
(ii) To ensure that the residual impacts are within the acceptable levels.
(iii) To enhance environmental and social benefits
Framework for Impact Mitigation: Avoidance: Alternative sites or technology to eliminate habitat loss.
Mitigation: Actions during the design, construction and operation to minimize or eliminate habitat loss
Compensation: Used as a last resort to offset habitat at loss.
Remedial Measures in Thermal Power Plants: (i) Air Pollution Control
(ii) SOx Control (Use of alternate fuel)
(iii) NOx Control (Amonia injection, Flue gas